Nelson Alvarez

Artist and professor Nelson Álvarez has yet again enchanted us with his detail drawings of Newark’s industrial buildings. The Cuban born artist has been exercising his passion in drawing through a series of drawings part of the exhibition entitled, “Newark’s Papers” at the James Howe Gallery and the Students Gallery both located in the Vaughn-Eames building at Kean University. Fascinated by industrial heritage of the city of Newark, Nelson’s artworks express his connection with architecture landscape while still capturing the romantic and qualitative aspects of each site,its patterns, atmosphere, and essence. Nelson Álvarez combines fantasy with detailed accuracy in his compositions of factory building facades, rooftops, factory chimneys and sections along with elements distinct to the area depicted. The process of creating these drawings is cyclical in that they continue to inform Nelson of the spirit of the city as he draws each artwork.

The ETS Center for Advocacy and Philanthropy invited me to be the artist during the celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. The exhibition takes place in the ETS Art Gallery in Princeton, NJ.

The idea behind Don't Go Ballistic question the impact of the war in the landscape. During the summer of 2012 I build a series of ceramics objects that reflected the contradictory relationship between War and Landscape.

Fragments of Landscape was an art exhibition during 2008 in the Richard Dryfoos Gallery at Kean University Library, Union New Jersey.

Tie Line was an art exhibition during 2010 in the SKAB Art Gallery at Kean University, Union New Jersey. The exhibition presents a body of work that documents the evolution and modernization of the industrial landscape, through an influx of repetitive visual information; bringing to us a philosophical reflection about the history of these structures and our relationship with them vs. our environment through the collective memory. Perhaps, his work is also a document to denounce the irrationality of humanity and its urge for super structures and industrialization without limits.